Discovering Passion Through Entrepreneurial Stories: Emerging Features from Content Analysis

The chapter investigates passion giving centrality to the entrepreneurs’ views. A mixed methodology (in-depth interviews and content analysis through text-mining techniques) is adopted. The chapter shows that entrepreneurs relate passion to the following

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Passion and Entrepreneurship Contemporary Perspectives and New Avenues for Research

Passion and Entrepreneurship

Enrico Baraldi Simone Guercini Marcus Lindahl  •  Andrea Perna Editors

Passion and Entrepreneurship Contemporary Perspectives and New Avenues for Research

Editors Enrico Baraldi Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden

Simone Guercini Department of Economics and Management University of Florence Florence, Italy

Marcus Lindahl Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden

Andrea Perna Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden Department of Management Università Politecnica delle Marche Ancona, Italy

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Preface

This book is the result of a collaboration that brought together a group of scholars interested in the relationship between passion and entrepreneurship according to several potential paths and viewpoints. It was October 2016 when during a meeting in Uppsala, Sweden, the anthology’s editors started talking about the project and decided to organize a first workshop in Florence, which would be followed by others in Uppsala and Milan. This volume is the result of this process, whose details are provided in Chap. 1. The book contributes on the link between passion and entrepreneurship, introducing new perspectives on this topic. We started from the idea that entrepren